Speaking on the ‘CEO Diary’ podcast,
Ultimate Fighting Championship The executive recalled how a series of emails from his mother escalated a family feud that eventually ended their relationship.
Dana White details the emails that destroyed her relationship with her mother, June White
White recalled one incident that marked the end of his relationship with his mother, June, who raised him and his sister, Kelly, as a single mother.
“I was on a trip once, you know it was before — you know, I didn’t have emails on the road or all that crap and I was with my partner Lorenzo Fertitta and we were in London for about two weeks,” White recalled. “And when I got back, I checked my e-mails and I have a bunch of e-mails (in June) threatening me. “You send me so much money. You have two options: you can give me all of this up front or you can pay me within the next damn thing, whatever, I want to buy a bar…” He was then whatever I got in London. The emails eventually started getting nastier and nastier and I just blew up and that was the beginning of the end of me and him.
White was estranged from his parents and revealed in a 2023 interview with Piers Morgan that both had recently died. She admitted that her mother’s book influenced her at the time, but said she doesn’t like to talk negatively about her parents.
“I don’t go on the show to talk negatively about my mom,” White said. “I told you before, I wouldn’t change a thing. People say, ‘Do you think you’re who you are today because of your parents?’ Absolutely, 100%. You know, good, bad, whatever, however you want to look at it. My parents are passing away, I don’t want to talk bad about my parents, but it’s one of the grossest, most disgusting things you could ever imagine until it happens to you.” happens.”
Despite his estrangement from his mother, White credited her for raising him and Kelly alone.
“Me and my sister talk about my mom and we’re like, ‘How the hell did she do that?'” White said. “She was a single mom. My dad was who he was. Single mom, got his *ss off, did all this and he did that. He raised two kids.”
